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Yachting OH (he Beach 



Atlantic City— 1906 




Here crowned with light she stands, 
Holding in outstretched hands 

Pleasure and health, 
With her emblazoned shield 
Poised on fair Fortune's wheel, 
Hinting joys unrevealed, 

Greater than wealth. 



Contents 



Atlantic City 

Tlie New Boardwalk 

To The Wooden Elephant 

The Atlantis Club 

A Jubilee Prayer 

Jubilee Song 

Post Office Corner Stone 

The New Public Library 



Illustrations 



Yachting Off the Beach 

During the Bathing Hour 

The Boardwalk Throng 

The Wooden Elephant 

At The Inlet 

The Jubilee Arch 

Looking Out to Sea 

Youthful Pleasures 

The New Public Library 

The Light House 

Atlantic City Coat of Arms 




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"T^IS a joy to remeinl)er — a dip in old ocean, 

^ Wdien the white crested lireakers roll hio-h on the 
strand — 
To l)e as a ]iart of its tnninlt and motion. 

To rock on its hillows and roll on the sand. 
To feel that the sea which keeps nations asnnder. 

With a tender enihrace holds yon close to its hreast. 
That its voice, which in tempest speaks londer than 
thnnder. 

With the softest of Inllahys woos yon to rest. 

The sea to onr ills serves as lialm and as lotion. 

'MonjT its hufifeting; waves from onr cares we are free. 
Each day we retnrn with a zealot's devotion 

To kneel at the shrine of the god of the sea. 
And how to the charms — 'tis a pleasnre and dnty — 

To the halfdiidden charms of America's gnds; 
One feels as he looks on their grace and their heanty. 

The hlue sea is showing its loveliest jjcarls. 



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\\'e hold some fair hand with a tender emotion. 

And meet tlie \va\e"s shoek hke a knight in his o-lory. 
Alas it oft prox'es like the "three men of Goshen." 

The \va\es of the sea put an end to the story. 
But se(|nels are told 'neath the hri^ht stars of hea\en. 

\\ hen the amorous waves lisp their Io\e to the shore; 
There's a charm in the sea so peculiar to even 

That one who has known it would feel it once more. 

Tlien Fill me a gohlet from out the hlue ocean. 

Here's a health to Atlantic, the (Jueen of the Sea; 
Alav her crown ne\er fall while the pkuiets ha\e motion. 

Wdiile our l)anner shall wa\e and our country is free! 
And here's to her daut^iiters. the rarest of creatures, 

1 pledt^e their f^oml healths, mav thev never decline; 
Ma\- their li\-es he as fair and as hri^ht as their teatures. 

And their cares light as huhhles that lloat on the hrine. 

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I" from the dim and distant past 

Into the present liurlech 
'Idle man should stand who named of }-ore 

The wonders of tlie worhh 
Mere on tlie strand that smihn;^- waits 

'Idle kisses of the tide. 
His wonderiiiQ- e\'es would now heh»»ld 

Wdiat other da\s denied. 



Beside the hank of E^'x'pt's Xile. 

\\ ith lotusdiowers decked. 
'Alid crumhlini^- temi)les of her L;ods. 

And man's aml)itions wre.d<ed, 
W liere oiil\- dust to dust is laid. 

Lies in its hi )S( )m hid 
The restless hrain that In'st conceix'ed 

The towering" pyramid. 



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This seeming- grandest of man's works 

v^tands in its stately gloom. 
A stony satire on his fame. 

His honor, and his tomb. 
Bnilt ])\- the blood of cringing slaves. 

His fate the tyrant's lot. 
His gra\e profaned 1)\- \-andal hands, 

His work and name lorgot. 

Long has the Pharos' light been dim. 

That led the saiktr on ; 
The banging wonders of the earth. 

The ])ride of P)abylon. 
The chaste Diana's templed shrine. 

That gemmed lq)hesns' gmxe ; 
The masteri)iece of Phidias' band. 

The grand ( )lymi)ian Jo\e. 

The frnit of Artemisia's lo\e. 

The mansolenm of her dead; 
The grand Colossus of old Khode^ — 

Wdiose burcnlean head. 
Like the archangel seen b\- John. 

P)V winging cloudlets fanned. 
One foot upon the boundless sea 

And one u])on the land. 



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These, all of these ha\e felt the \\ei,^ht 

Of the <;rini hand oi Time — 
A mass of ruined eolnmns left 

Of temples onee stihlime. 
'J'lie l)ase>t niotixes, Inst of wealth 

And powei' marked their hirth ; 
These ^ems that ^^tiperstilioii wove, 

h'ast fading from the earth. 

lUit liere l)eside tlie stitmding sea, 

W hose healthful l)ree/.e henign 
Di'aws myriad \dtaries to her arms. 

As doth to Mecca's shrine 
The ])rophet"s sacred tomh. So liei'C, 

Tier charms the\' will defend. 
And lik'c the (ireeks of ancient days 

To health and heatitx- hend. 

"Arches on arches, as prond l\omc 

Collecting trojihies of lier line. 
Would huild her tritimph in one dome," 

As Bvron sang. The grand design 
Bv which the mistress of the seven hills- 

The Eternal City — sought to seal 
The patent of her sovereignty. 

Her power and her weak 



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So arclies and arclics, l)v the dee]), 

Atlantic. Chy by the Sea. 
A jewel still nf greater worth 

Adds tn her crown of majesty. 
Supreme she stands amon^- the lew 

C)t which the comino- aL^e will talk. 
L nto the "Se\en WOnders of the Wdrld" 

She adds the ei-hth— 1 ler Walk. 

Here ma\- earth's wear\- mortals come, 

r')\' sickness lon^;- o])])ressed, 
.\nd feel iis^ain the jovs of lite. 

r>\- wa\"e and hreeze caressed: 
vSuch as the houn<linLi' spirit feels 

W hen freed from earth]\- clods. 
And di-ink- from heax'en's am1)rosial hrealh 

The neclai" < if the l;( kIs. 

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To thp: Wooden Elephant 



g^ 1\ I M cffii^'N- iif one whose iiiii^lity tread 
^-^ Disturbed the shiiiihei"s of pi-inieval man. 
Ere vet the ^laciers 'iieatli tlie ardent sun. 

In mi,qlit\- rixers to tlie oeeans ran: 
\\ lio hrow sed 'mid se(|uoia j^roxes that scarcely hid 

The dome-hke arL-hint;- hack and jiouderous thigh. 
The tirst-growth of those giant forest trees, 

Wdiose tops to-da\- doth pierce tlie eternal sky. 

\\di\- stand vou here heside the restless sea. 

As silent as the sphinx on Xilus' hank.-' 
Perhaps thv prototype, in daxs of yore, 

Stoo(l thus and gazed ere fair Atlantis sank, 
I{re Alemnon caught tlie lirst cool hreitli ot morn 

That hlew across v^aliara's dreary waste; 
\\r<^ Chares dreamed of llelios deihed, 

And o\er Rhodes his famed Colossus ])laced. 



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Ere Phidias in friir ()l\-ni|)ia \\r<>ii^'1it 

His ^Taiid ci>ncei)ti(m of ()l\ni])ian j(i\c; 
Ere llnddlia's ima,<;e, formed of t^iowing Ijronze, 

Lit up tlie aisles of Kamakura's gro\-e ; 
Aye! long ei'e E])eus had thoughl to huild 

I'he e(|uine wonder of the ancient world. 
And ha])less 'l'i'o\-. deaf to Cassandra's \'oiee, 

h'elt Grecian \engeance al her xitals hurled. 

Mere stood, perchance, and iruniped with lifted head 

A matin welcome to the rising sun. 
And saw xain I'liaelhon. in his llaming car. 

Ivill to the earth ere half his course was run; 
Saw fair L'rania strew the heaxens with stars. 

I^re yet Aurora's ros\- cheeks were horn. 
And lond Selene steal from her golden throne 

To kiss the \\[)> of chaste End\niion. 

Arl thou an oracle from da\s of eld? 

Doth in thee dwell ihe manes of the great? 
Cansi thfiu not read man's fateful horoscope. 

And tell 1)_\- Zeus" stars oui" cit\-"s fate? 
Must she. like Athens, wane hefore the power 

( )f some jiroud Rome, throned on her se\en hills. 
Or wi])ed. like Carthage, from the map of earth. 

(Jr fade like Tadnior with her tliousand rills? 



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Art silent still, thou wooden substitute? 

Thou art not worth the eaekliui;- geese of Ivonie 
Thou art no oraele, thou hollow sham. 

\\\ rather pin ni\- faith on Sibylline tome. 
But I'm a ])r()])het. mark ye. paehyderm. 

'I'he wisdom of a seventli son's in me! 
She was! She is! vSlie shall he e\ermore 

The (Jueen of Cities. I)\- the sun-lit sea. 

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The Atlantis Club 



TT ri-* iKiil today tlie new Atlantis! Born 

" 1 Reside the selfsame sea. where once of }'ore 
A sister island smiled — all xerdnred o'er 
With radiant lo\'e — toward the hhishin^- dawn. 

What hoots it no\\- if, 'neath the cnrlino- w.ave, 
Her niarhle tem])les crnmhle and decay; 
If from her ashes, like the Sjjhinx, today 

A fairer I'ises 'hoxe her nameless ^raxe? 

Within the wine of lei^end lie the lees. 
All rich with fahle of the joyous days. 
Of naiads dancini;-. while the she])her(l ])lays 

Beneath the groves of famed Plesperides. 



There Pleasure reared her temple and her shrine, 
And Bacchus pressed the juice for festive Ixian 
Wdiile smiling- Xature in ahundance stored 

The milk and honey of a land di\ine. 

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Now tatlidnis dee]), amid the cnral o-roves. 

The mermaids plax' in halls where prinees trod, 
Or in the shadow of an o"er-thrown i^'od, 

Lisp to the wa\es their sorrows and their loves. 

^'et here the g-lass of life is brimmino- o'er, 
\\ here fairer maids are sporting in the sea, 
And like a rose unfolds the mystery 

Of l()ve exnltant, where Time is no more. 

Then on vour altar light the sacred flame; 

Crown I'leasnre ijneen : AI)o\e the groaning hoard 
Cdas]) hands aronnd, one heart and one accord, 

.And pro\e )-onr hrotherhood in more than name. 

v^o may Atlantis dourish. as the I'ates shall will! 
.May Pleasnre's fairest danghters. Wit and .Mirth, 
Rest 'neath the posyd)looms that deck \-our hearth. 

And h'oi-tnne all \-onr horns of ])lent\' fill. 

J I INK 2T, T<S9(;. 



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A )uBii.]^E Prayer 



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I^MIGHTY FATHER, wlm directs the destinies 
of men. 

'Idiv Inve and care of fifty years vouchsafe to us again. 
Snnle on onr work if it 1)e i;'ood : ah praise we o'ix'e t') 
Thee : 
And make of tliis in every sense a Golden Jnhilee! 



Thou who hath said "no liouse can last that's huilt upon, 

the sand" 

llath reared a citv on the same, the fairest in the land. 

Th\' children's works we know, oh Lord, huilt hy Thy 

_i4"race alone. 

Will last as lons>' on shiftin"- sands as on enduriuf"- stone. 



These monuments that we hax'e reared are hut the out- 
ward sh( )\v 
Of i^rateful feelings in the heart which Thou alone 
canst know. 
Oh, ma\' these hearts a temple prove, acceptahle to Thee, 
Thv spirit's hlest arcanum. Lord, on Th_\' g'reat juhilee. 

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Uui's l)c the work. Thine be the praise; this offering we 

ha\e Inhumed 

1^)1- Thee, wlio holds us safelx* in the hohow of Thy 

hand. 

r>e with us in the \-ears to c()me as in the strugghng past. 

And he our faith in Thee, oh Lor(h en(hn"inL;' to the hist. 

Out of all this ina\- something grow to ])ro\'e of lasting 
g( tod, 
A clearer sense of truth and right, un.sellish brother- 
hood ; 
A charity as boundless as the sea that hues our shore, 
A war declared on wrong and sin till the\' shall be no 
more. 

Bless Thoti the dwellers (tf this isle and those who seek 
our gate. 
May health and comfort bide with them and pleasure 
on them wait. 
Safe guide them to their homes and lo\ed. when the 
rejoicing's past. 
And take them to Th_\' heaxenlv home to dwell with 
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Almii^iity Ivillierl As we kneel Tliy l)lcsl name in adore. 
Our heartl)eat.s are a.s waves that l)reak npon the shelv- 
ino- shore. 
Xo l)eatini^- pnlse, no rolling- wave. sa\-e ])y the graee of 
Thee. 
Bono-ht hy the Ijlood of Tlini wlio stilled the wa\'es of 
Galilee. 

'I'o Thee we kneel, to Thee we ])ray. hlest Father, hlessed 
v^on. 
And Ilcdy Ghost, that hroods o'er all, Great Trin^l^• in 
one. 
Now let Thy Ijenedietion fall, Thy cheering- snnlight be 
The seal of Thy ap[)roval of our Golden Jnhilee. 

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Jubilee Song 



\ EL liail to AllanlicI This festixal 'wakens 

Tlic nicniories of days e're your virtues were 
known. 
W'lien \()u "rose like a ^-oddess from out the l)hie ocean. 

And nio\ed hke a (|ueen to yotir sceptre and throne; 
All hail to the fathers whose faith made this fruitas^^e! 

All hail to the mothers who toiled at your hirth! 
-Ml hail to their smis who ha\-e garnered the harx'est ! 
All hail to their daughters, the fairest of earth. 

Then throw to the hreezes \nuv Ijanners and 
streamers. 
March to the diiim of the resonant sea. 
Down the hroad street "neath the cohimns and 
arches, 
MoN'e to the strains of the glad ju1)ilee. 

I'.xnltant todav as \-ou gather \-our laurels. 

No cit}- of fal)le can with \on compare. 
The waxes of the sea are the folds of xour garments, 

The sun-tinted clouds are the strands of \-onr hair. 



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The citv of Helen, 1)\' I Tomer exalted. 

The ^lorv of Cartha.^e — the world at her knee — 
The splendor of \'enice, thong-h lont;- since departed, 
JMust yield to your claims, thon fair (jiieen (jf The Sea. 
Then throw to the l)reezcs yonr hanners and 
streamers ; 
March to the drum of the rescmant sea. 
Down tlie hroad street "neath the columns and 
arches, 
Mo\e to the strains of the i^lad juhilee. 

Ynur ^-arlands to(la\- are the waiL^e <it your \ictories. 

Won from the jo\s, not the sorrows ol men. 
Long- he \dur reign, if \-our reign he ot rightecjusness. 

Your rising star kaiow no setting again. 
City of cities no hard can immortalize, 

Your crown is set where the nations ma_\' see; 
Throw wide the gates of this mecca of pleasure. 
And welcome the hosts to your glad juhilee. 

Then throw to the hreezes your hanners and 
streamers ; 
March to the drum of the resonani sea. 
Down the hroad street "neath the columns and 
arches. 
Ahi\e to the strains of the glad juhilee. 

June 1 4- 1*^04. 



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Youthful Pleasures 



Post Office Corner Stone 



DEDICATION ODE. 

I |XCK Pa^an temples in tlic days of old. 
^"^^ And later vet cathedrals, wast and ^rand 
Were dedicated 1)\- the bnilder's hand. 
And the first corner laid with tool nf i.;nld. 
The teni])les fell and crnnibled to decay. 
The massi\-e churches, too. shall ])ass away; 
Only the truths their stony husks enfold. 
Their aid to humankind, will last for aye. 

No more, no less, this structure reared for use. 
To ease the burdens ^rowin^- year 1)\- year. 
To l)ring the distant ends of earth so near. 
That we may never know the great abuse 
Of hindering time, our humble sires knew. 
We strive their honest labors to undo. 
In that we call and Ijend to human use 
Nature's great forces, howe'er strange or new. 



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As gods we sit, these serwints do oiir will, 
Tlioni^-li not with win,<;'cd sandals as of vore. 
Tlioni^iits th' like ligiunnii;' no\\^ from shore to shore. 
And messages ])enned in the twilight still 
vS])eed throngh the night to greet the coming dav 
O'er sea or land, a thonsand miles awa}'. 
We deem that serxdce slnggish now and ill 
'Idiat time and distance does not (|nickl\' slav. 

The_\- are hnt dreams, the plodding feet of man, 
The lahored hreath, the featnres drawn and sel. 
The straining steed with perspiration wet, 
The dnst-hegrimed and creeping carawan. 
The laggard hoat with hiaded oars ahent. 
The rolling shi]) with can\as frayed and rent. 
The signet of the i'ast, now dead and Wdu, 
Replaced hy token that the rre>ent sent. 

Bnild well this tem])le, for it is in trnth 

'Idle shrine of Hope, where sweet expectance stands, 

\\ ho to the god of Fate holds ont her hands 

For missi\es that shall he for- io\- or rnth. 

So stood the maiden at the SihN'l's gate. 

From early morn nntil the evening late. 

To catch the mystic message, which forsooth 

Made her a \estal or a lo\ino- mate. 



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( )ii its foundation (lnl\- laid and tried 

'Idle superstructure soon will rear its form. 

To lieard the forces of the angrv storm. 

Tin the proud sun appears with stately stride 

From out the regions of the nether \vorld ; 

^riien 'round its dome his peaceful hanners furled 

Will deck its columns, like a \'outhful hride. 

With locks of sunlis^ht "round her forehead curled 

TTeed, master workman, well tin- task and trust. 
With plumh and s(|uare, with art and cunning- skill, 
h'ach span of space with some new heautv lill, 
\ et hear in mind that Time's dex'ourinj;- rust 
Is sown hy Death, e'en as you mark the sod. 
Touches the lahorer as he lilts his hod; 
And oid\- Truth looms throui^h the falling- dust. 
Bright in the sight of angels and of (i(»d. 

OcTor.iiR 24, 1904. 



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The Nkw Public Library 



T ](»()k to see ll}-])atia dead. 

Her warm l)l()()d on the marble lloor ; 
The moh that i;'i"im Saint Cyril led 

Seem stormino- at the \'erv door. 
I tnrn to sa\e the sacred rolls 

That Energ-etes bronght so far. 
And call on Eratosthenes 

Of ancient .\lexandria. 

Then wake as fmm a horrid dream. 

\\ hile fade the ])\'rami(ls and tombs. 
1 see no sandstorm-pitted sphinx. 

Xor colnmns capped with lotus blooms. 
The naked monks with bloody hands. 

Like demons "fore the cross ha\-e fled. 
Here in their ])lace now shining stands 

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Between us and those fearful days 

Fifteen lonq- centuries interxene. 
Ul)li\'i(tn in licr l<indness la\'s 

Her rul^e Ijefore the (hsmal scene. 
And the dark }ea.rs when Learnint^- Hed 

h'roni haunts nf men ha\e ])assed awav; 
The footsound of her marching- tread 

Is heard throui^hout the land to-dav. 

And here l)eside the soundino- sea 

This marl)le casket has enshrined 
Alan's hest that was, is, and shall he, 

'i'he jjriceless jewels of the mind. 
Here Shakespeai-e's di-ama, I )ante's \erse. 

And Milton's allegories tine. 
Contented lie, with Homer's terse. 

Melodious stanzas, rich, di\ine. 

Let them who'd know the cataloi;ue 

Of all the intellectual lis^hts, 
'idial shine like stars aho\-e the foil's 

Of superstition's i^ioomy nights. 
Come here, and in this treasure mart 

Become ac(|uainted well with each. 
The thouoiits and feeling's of the soul 

W hich hloonied upon their lips in si)eech. 



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Ctiiild lie whose wealth this ^il't hestnwed 

See tar hex'^iid man's utmost ken. 
He'd find his l)eiiehts o'erllow. 

A li\'in^- til )()(!, to sons of men. 
W'lien centnries pass, this temple white 

Will stand to emphasize his fame, 
And guided 1)\- its hel|) and li^'ht 

They'll call down hlessings on his name. 

Dkckmp.kr 3t, T904. 



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